My purse went missing, yesterday, (friday 29th Oct) with a considerable amount of money in it.

I was on my way to pay my rent, and had my purse, with over £300 in it, (My rent money) as well as my disability bus pass, my disability exemption card for prescriptions as well as my Shopmobility membership cards etc. and mine and my other half's mobile swipe cards.

I also had my electronic rent payment swipe card (like the cards you have for mobile phones)

If anyone found a large pale blue leather purse, containing a LOT of money, in the west street/ leopold street area, (or who knows of someone who did)

Please can they let me know! thanks.

I am not sure if it was dropped, or if it was "lifted" out of my handbag.

Whichever way it went "walkabout", there was enough information to be able to get it back to me.(my work address, and my home address were in there)

If the person with my purse took it from my handbag, then they are lower than the belly of a snake, seeing as I was on a mobility scooer, and obviously they could see i am someone disabled.

If they found it, after it "fell" then my cards would have shown that I am disabled, so why they kept it is a mystery to me.(if they saw it fall, there is no reason why they could not have come after me and given it me back)

(I realise that i was a bit silly to have such a large amount on me, to lose, but, as I said, I was on my way to pay my rent, and to get some shopping)

If anyone you know happens to let slip that they came into a (coff!) "windfall", by way of finding a purse, please let me know.

thanks in advance

PT

Wish you the very best of luck with this, PT.

You should have kept a better hold on it.

If i lost £300 i would only have myself to blame.

was it a clip type, rivet clasp or a wallet type in soft leather with an impression on the front ?

I fear you may have lost your purse and the cards contained in it at the time. I hope there is a happy conclusion to this problem.

How about a forum whip round ? come on folks if we all send a tenner to help PT out of a hole she will not have to struggle until next pay day. What does anyone else think?
Someone who lives in the middle of town could arrange a way for any interested parties to give a donation.

Originally posted by owdlad
How about a forum whip round ? come on folks if we all send a tenner to help PT out of a hole she will not have to struggle until next pay day. What does anyone else think?
Someone who lives in the middle of town could arrange a way for any interested parties to give a donation.


i will collect the money off every1

if 50 of us give £10 towards it, that would make £350 right??

Originally posted by Robbie_Lovin
i will collect the money off every1

if 50 of us give £10 towards it, that would make £350 right??

Do you and kirky work together :suspect:

Originally posted by owdlad
Do you and kirky work together :suspect:

whatever do you mean?? LOL

we dont officially work together ;-)

Originally posted by island3rlara
was it a clip type, rivet clasp or a wallet type in soft leather with an impression on the front ?

thank you for the kind responses, folks.

it was a "ladies-wallet style" , pale blue, nubuck-leather purse, with a zipped compartment one side for coins, and a folding part on the other side, for notes and cards, with a small press-stud flap.

It is about the same width across as a CD, (about 4/5 inches square)

And Brownieblade... thank you, for the "sympathy" ... don't you think I am (metaphorically speaking) kicking myself, up and down the length of Sheffield High-Street, for "losing" such a large amount? Don't you think I am sickened at the thought of someone having a "birthday" spending my rent, and housekeeping money?

I am of the opinion that someone "lifted" it, rather than that it fell out of my Handbag.

In a crowded city centre, it is very easy to be distracted, and for purses, wallets, credit cards etc to be pickpocketed/ stolen.

My late mother had the wristwatch almost lifted off her wrist, as she walked through the doors to the Castle Market.

She felt a sort of "tickling" sensation, on her wrist.

She went to lift her arm up to see what it was, that was tickling her wrist. As she did this, she felt a slight, strange, "tug" of the watch strap, as she moved her arm forwards.

As she looked down, she saw someone's hand dart, away from her arm, and she realised that her watch was loose, almost the whole of the way-undone. She managed to place her hand onto the watch in time to stop it falling off.

The louse had undone my mum's watch strap, virtually without her knowlege. My mum thought, with hindsight, that they must have slipped, slightly with their hand, and touched her skin or something as they were undoing the strap, and that she (fortunately) was alert enough to notice the strange sensation.

Pickpockets and sneak-thieves like this rely on distraction. They touch you on one area of your body, so your brain focusses on that, and you do not notice the touch on another area where they are removing your purse from your bag or pocket.

And, it's doubly difficult, when you are controlling a wheelchair:; your concentration is on the effort of pushing it, or driving it, trying to make sure that you keep moving, without clipping the ankles of the hordes of people who try to walk "through" you, rather than "round" you.

it's a bloody lousy (insert swear word of choice, here) who will stoop so damn low as to nick the purse of a person in a wheelchair! We are talking a complete morality-transplant, here.

I am sickened, I really am.

P "gutted" T

Do you have any sort of Personal Belongings insurance that goes along with your Buildings/Contents insurance? That should cover you for the money at the very least..

unfortunately not. :(

the thing is, most insurance companies' premiums are prohibitively expensive.

So even though we really can't do "without" insurance, we can't afford to get it...

(I don't believe that, without proof of theft, we'd be able to claim the money back anyway, would we?)

PT

do not take this the wrong way PT but you seem to mention that your disabled quite a lot! The theives would have taken your purse disabled or not! your not gonna get more sympathy because your disabled! Im not being nasty but hate it when people know they will get more sympathy because they aren't able bodied!

Originally posted by skala
do not take this the wrong way PT but you seem to mention that your disabled quite a lot! The theives would have taken your purse disabled or not! your not gonna get more sympathy because your disabled! Im not being nasty but hate it when people know they will get more sympathy because they aren't able bodied!

Disabled people need the money more though as a lot of us don't work for one reason or another.

I know PT does work though.

And as she's said the money was for her rent and food shopping, which is pretty darn essential.

yeah i know rich! dont get me wrong i just dont like it when people let us know a bit too often that they are disabled! My nephew's disabled so i understand!

Originally posted by skala
do not take this the wrong way PT but you seem to mention that your disabled quite a lot! The theives would have taken your purse disabled or not! your not gonna get more sympathy because your disabled! Im not being nasty but hate it when people know they will get more sympathy because they aren't able bodied!

Don't take it the wrong way!

So let's get this clear, you want to have a go at PT and the fact that she mentions she is disabled yet you dont want her to have a go back.
You hate when people know they will get more sympathy,through mentioning they have disabilities. well tough titty. Let's hope you never become disabled.
You should try seeing if you would be upset if some low life pinched your months rent money, if you have nothing more constructive than that to suggest go and get a life, :rant:

Originally posted by owdlad
Do you and kirky work together :suspect:


:o :o :o :o :o don't tar me with same brush as that scoundrel:heyhey:

how much we got upto now rob:D

Originally posted by skala
do not take this the wrong way PT but you seem to mention that your disabled quite a lot! The theives would have taken your purse disabled or not! .....
But being disabled would make someone an easy target. Thieves are cowards, they target the most vulnerable and easiest to rob, simple as that.

what skala is saying though, is that PT mentions that she is disabled i most posts she makes, or there is something discriminative (if that is a word) everytime she posts something!!

this is not necesarily a bad thing, but i think skala is just saying it gets repetitive!!!

now before you have a go at me, i live with my mum who is disabled, and very much wheelchair bound!!
but i dont think she deserves to be treat any different because she is disabled, because for a start it is degrading them, and makes them feel useless!!

skala has a point, disabled people say they wanna do things for themselves etc, but when they feel they have had something done badly to them, they mention the disablement!!

Hiya Robbie, I am disabled, and rarely if ever have mentioned it on here, that's no one bodies business but mine,
it makes no difference to me whether someone is disabled or not, but the original post was about PT and her missing purse, the fact that she mentioned the disability is neither here nor there.

Let's not get carried away from the original posting.

PT. Karma.

You know what i am saying. Earlier this year I dropped £1000 in cash that I had drawn out from the bank. I retraced my steps within 2 minutes and someone had picked it up behind me and must have seen me looking for it.

I just imagine that it didn't do them much good.

Originally posted by bonny
PT. Karma.

You know what i am saying. Earlier this year I dropped £1000 in cash that I had drawn out from the bank. I retraced my steps within 2 minutes and someone had picked it up behind me and must have seen me looking for it.

I just imagine that it didn't do them much good.

anyone thats drops a grand and don't know are either too rich or too daft

Originally posted by kirky
anyone thats drops a grand and don't know are either too rich or too daft

What about £300?

My opinion is the same as the old saying about fools and money.

PT I have every sympathy for your plight just as I would for anyone who had lost/been robbed of such a large amount of money.

However at the end of the day you should have been more careful and have only yourself to blame, as you were not mugged carelessness must have played it's part.

One thing confuses me though... your original post was a kind of 'lost property' plea however you've gone on to say that you thing it was criminals that picked your purse and from what I have read you have no proof that this happened, except that something similar happened a long time ago to a member of your family. I think it's wrong to go around accusing 'persons unknown' for a crime you have no proof that ever took place.

It just seemed that you have been unlucky and again as the old saying goes 'You make your own luck'

I agree with Kirky on this one

Originally posted by d71146
I agree with Kirky on this one


:o :o :o :o :

bleedin hell

In 2/3 of the previous posts i mentioned my disability.

I only mention it in this one (the 4th of 4 so far..), by way of reply.

As for the "discrepancy", that brailz mentioned... What I actually said. was... that I was not 100% certain whether it had been dropped or actually lifted from my bag.

However, it is less likely that it was dropped/fell out of my bag, than it having been lifted. so, my money is on some lightfingered **** having nabbed it.

but, whatever way it happened, it is still lousy for someone to steal it / keep the purse, when there is the owners identity within the purse or wallet.

I managed to return the purse I found, a few weeks ago, to the lady who lost it, with the barest minimum of clues to her identity, no address, only a name, a bank card and a membership card of a club. My purse had my name and home address and work address in it. so if it were dropped, then there is no reason why the finder could not have returned it by dropping it in at work (work being very close by) or by contacting me at home.

The fact still remains that someone, somewhere has, in their posession, property that does not belong to them, but to me, and, that's theft, whichever way you look at it; if they lifted it out of my bag, it's plain theft, or, if they found it, and did not hand it into the police or return it some other way, then it's what's called "theft by finding" and that is equally culpable.

and yes, bonny, i agree with you 100%; "Karma!" .. what goes round, comes around, and I hope that whoever it is that has my property, gets precisely what they deserve.

PT

You need to check all your bank statements very carefully. If they know your home and work addresses, along with having bank cards & mobility cards, you don't want to become a victim of identity fraud. It's the last thing you need.

Of course, theres always the possibility that some has found it, but just hasnt had a chance to return it yet.

jessycarr;
It is fortunate, in one way, I don't have any bank accounts.

SLH.. It *is* a possibility, but I am not holding my breath... there has been ample time since Friday, to contact me, or my place of work to return it (or, indeed, to contact the police, perhaps, and to ask *them* to notify me and reunite me with my property)

if it is the case, that someone has been unable to return it, then, I will eat humble pie. human nature seemingly being what it is, I am not filled with hope, sadly.

PT

I hope people read this thread and it makes them think about carrying what could be considered large sums of money around is not a good idea. Whenever I have a bill to pay the money is withdrawn from my ATM outside my bank I then carry it into the bank clutching it firmly and pay the bill there and then.
The hassle and aggravation of having to replace all your cards is enough to make you sick and that's compounded by the fact that you've lost money as well,

just a quickie! owdlad if you had read on you will have seen me say i have a disabled nephew! i do feel for PT but it does happen every day! and thanks robbie you get where im comin from lol!

Originally posted by slh73
Of course, theres always the possibility that some has found it, but just hasnt had a chance to return it yet.

oh yeah never thought of that......:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

No bank accounts....

No insurance......

Likes to carry large amounts of money around in a carefree manner.....

Can I buy your house... I'll give you ten magic beans for it!

In my previous post I said that I had every sympathy for you.... well I retract that comment. I know believe you got what was coming (harsh but IMO true).

You seem intent on doing everything using the hardest and most complicated method available just to prove that it can be done that way.

I bet you take great pride in not having a bank account and like to tell people at every available opportunity...Therefore to me disability or not you're a loser (again harsh, but again IMO true)

With regards to you saying that insurance being prohibitevly expensive, every body has the choice on what to spend their money on. You just made the wrong one. I guessing that everybody thinks that insurance is a overpriced but they get it anyway because they know that if things go tits up they'll be protected. If seems as thought you've gambled.... and lost on this occasion.

I only have a modest income but have to pay my mortgage, insurance, council tax and all the rest and yes it can be hard, I've not been on holiday (anywhere!) for over ten years! But I still get the insurance because if the worst were to happen I like to know that I won't be left high and dry with nothing.

PT you seem to enjoy taking risks, no insurance, carrying large amounts of money around, however in doing things the risky way you can't complain when things don't work out and you end up out of pocket.

Get over it!

Mod: Closing this thread because of some rather unnecessary personal remarks.

If anyone finds PT's purse, please pass it on.